10x Recruiting by Metaview30 Sep 2026
Inside Metaview’s $60M Raise
Siadhal Magos · Co-Founder and CEO @ Metaview
- Metaview’s CEO argues connected agents on one platform beat stand-alone point solutions because shared context builds trust. It is his company’s sales pitch, and Metaview produces this show.
- Magos says the more work AI does over longer periods, the more you must trust it, and trust depends on the agent holding the right context.
- Metaview says it raised a further $60M led by Insight Partners, taking total funding to $110M, and Magos says 60% of customers now coming in are platform customers, buying more than one Metaview product. Both are self-reported.
Recruiting Roadshow by Greenhouse29 Sep 2026
Judgment is the superpower
Kelsey Biggs · VP Global Talent Acquisition @ Gong
- Gong shifted about a year ago from inbound applications to sourcing and referrals, because keyword matching and extra recruiter screens still gave no better signal.
- Biggs borrows Gong’s sales coaching model, not yet set up in her team’s new system: managers leave timestamped comments on recorded calls, such as flagging one that ended with no talk of compensation.
- Biggs wants sourcing to start in the ATS, with declined candidates tagged automatically from call transcripts for future roles, and admits “we never start there either”.
Recruiting Future29 Sep 2026
Managing Career Transitions
Kelly O. Kay · Global Managing Partner, Enterprise Software and AI Practice @ Heidrick & Struggles
- Kay describes an executive hired without reference checks because the parties already knew each other, then fired a year later: familiarity is no reason to skip them.
- He has not seen AI shorten the time it takes to hire an executive, because the bets are so big, and says AI is used far more for earlier-career hiring.
- Kay scores each opportunity on three lenses: quality of the company, quality of the role and quality of the offer, to keep emotion out of the decision.
PromptMates Live23 Sep 2026
How to Increase AI Adoption
Annika in der Beek · Chief People Officer @ Statista, and Martyn Redstone · Head of Responsible AI @ Warden AI
- Statista sends every employee a private monthly AI usage email covering prompts, token spend, models used and an efficiency score. Only the individual sees it, never their manager.
- Statista gave everyone a multi-model workspace called Langdock and accepted higher token costs, because in der Beek says that step releases fear and gets people going.
- Warden AI’s Martyn Redstone, whose company audits HR AI for bias, says “a human made the final hiring decision” is no defence, because most regulation now covers decision influence.
